Chamberlain Outlines South Africa Policy In Commons
London dispatch reports Mr Chamberlain presenting settlement lines for South Africa aimed at ending guerrilla war and moving toward Crown government and eventual self rule. Milner’s role unclear. plans include Dutch proclamations, municipal rights for Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Bloemfontein, with emphasis on pacification and taxation to fund wide reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Duncan Pirie
North Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
South Africa
Mr. Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Orange River
Alfred Milner
Lord Roberts
Chamberlains Statement Promises Civil Government in Transvaal
Liberals cheer as Joseph Chamberlain announces in the House of Commons that civil government will soon be established in the Transvaal and Orange River colonies. He says the government hopes, not proclaims, that before the next session civil administration may be set up in both colonies. The offer reflects ongoing imperial policy discussions.
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Transvaal
Asquith
Timothy Healy
North South
South Africa
Philippines
House of Commons
Viscount Cranborne
Foreign Office
Orange Free State
A. Emmett
Oldham
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Chamberlain
Emmett
London
Joseph Chamberlain
Orange River
Orange
De Wet Retreat From Sterk Spruit Near Aliwal North
General De Wet after the Sterk Spruit engagement moved south at night crossed the Caledon River to Odendal Drift but found it impassable. He veered east along the Orange River, then northeast toward Rouxville, pursued by General Knox. De Wet’s men are exhausted and 300 dead and dying horses were counted along the Smithfield road.
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Aliwal
Kitchener
War Office
de Wet
Dewersdorp
Knox
Lindley
Rhenester
Vaal
Orange River
Caledon
Odendal
Reuxville
Wepener
Orange River Colony
MacDonald
Allwal
Cape Colony
Sterk Spruit
Caledon River
Odendal Drift
Rouxville
Smithfield Road
Concentration camp on the Rand burghers to be largered
Johannesburg reports the reconcentrato policy with four thousand farm folk to be housed on a racecourse in a laager under tight control. The Gazette notes able bodied British subjects may be conscripted for Rand Rifles service as well.
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Johannesburg
Rand
Rand Rifles
Lord Roberts Arrives at Port Elizabeth
Lord Roberts arrived this morning aboard the Canada at Fort Elizabeth Cape Colony and was greeted by hundreds of townspeople who waited all night for a view. He rode through town, received several addresses, then re embarked on the Canada. All Deerfoot Farm sausages are made at the Farm in Southboro Massachusetts using select materials and clean preparation.
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Lord Roberts
Port
Southboro
Mass
Senate to vote on amendment to Hay-Pauncefote next Thursday
In executive session Washington reports the Senate will decide next Thursday at 3 o clock on the foreign relations committee amendment policing the canal. Senator Teller proposes to strike out the fortification ban on the Nicaragua Canal and argues the United States should build the canal without Britain’s consent. Senate adjourned after Morgan and Teller speeches with no open-session business.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On Foreign Relations
Teller
Nicaragua
Morgan
Senator Lodge
Senator Morgan
Colorado
United States
Great Britain
Hay
Evarts
Blaine
England
Horace J Hayden Killed In Window Fall At Home
Horace J Hayden second vice president of the New York Central Railroad was killed at his home by a fall from a window while suffering heart disease and dizziness. He served as major in the Civil War and held multiple railroad directorships and company presidencies. He leaves a widow one daughter and two sons.
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NEW York Central
Horace J. Hayden
New-York Central Railroad
West Seventy-sixth-st
Hayden
Walter Jones
West Seventy-fourth St
Mr. Hayden
Roundsman McNaught
Armstrong and Deering
Robert A. Abbe
Arthur L. Fisk
No. 13
West Fiftieth St
Abbe and Fisk
Harvard University
4Th Regiment of Artillery
Kansas City
Boston
Boston and Albany Railroad
Boston and Albany
William H. Vanderbilt
New-York Central
New- York Central
Central Dock and Terminal Railway Company
Tonawanda Island Bridge Company
Buffalo Erie Basin Railroad Company
Carthage and
Adiron- Gack Railway
Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and
Pittsburg
Gouverneur and Oswegatchie Railroad
Merchants’ Dispatch and Transportation Company
Mohawk and
Malone Railroad
New-Jersey Junction Railroad
New-Jersey Shore Line
New York and Putnam Railroad
New-York Central Niagara River Railroad
Niagara Falls Branch
Spuyten
Cars Crush An Automobile At Bleecker Street
Cyrus Field Judson of 135 Broadway and a companion were riding south when they tried to cross Sixth Avenue tracks at Bleecker Street. Their car was hit by a northbound and then a southbound streetcar, demolishing the auto and forcing a brief traffic delay. Judson refused to file a complaint and no arrests were made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyrus Field Judson
Broadway
Bleeckerst
Warships to hasten to South America from San Diego
Admiral Kautz ordered immediate sailing to South America. The Iowa and the Philadelphia prepare to depart San Diego tomorrow amid surprise at the sudden move. A coal load of one thousand tons for the flagship was cut to half before cancellation.
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San Diego
Cal
Kautz
South America
Iowa
Philadelphia
Colombia to Pay an Indemnity for Taboga Seizure
Kingston reports the British gunboat Pheasant visited Panama after the seizure of the British steamer Taboga by Colombian authorities. Settlement is believed to be an indemnity to the Pacific Navigation Company. Fighting continues at Buenaventura as rebels retain positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Jamaica
Colon
Panama
Pacific Navigation Company
Buenaventura
Death of Horace J Hayden Shocks Senator Depew
Washington reports Horace J Hayden, longtime railroad traffic executive and ally of Senator Depew, has died. Depew recalls his colleague as an able traffic man and genial person. Board of Directors will decide successor, possibly by promotion, if the office is filled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senator Depew
Horace J. Hayden
Mr. Hayden
Depew
Hayden
United States
Promoon
Sweeney Rescues Tug Crew After Gale Sinks John W Her ring
Captain Miller of the C. C. Sweeney rescued all but one crew member from the sinking tug John W. Herring, twenty miles south of Cape Lookout. Engineer D. W. Douglas drowned. survivors include Charles Stevens, William Van Harten, Reuben Doane, and Emanuel Faby. The tug, bound Elizabeth City to Beaufort, with cargo lumber, sank after a gale November 24.
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C. C. Sweeney
David Miller
Brunswick
John W. Herring
Cape Lookout
Charles Stevens
William van Harten
Reuben Doane
Emanuel Faby
D. W. Douglas
Douglas
Captain Stevens
Elizabeth City
N. C
Beaufort
S. C
Miller
Sweeney
Secret inquiry into vast Buffalo divorce mill
Justices of the New York Supreme Court opened a confidential probe into a suspected nationwide divorce mill pattern. They consider the charges serious enough to pursue actions against involved attorneys, with District Attorney Penney given access to corroborating evidence.
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Buffalo
Childs
White
Lambert, Hooker
Kruse
Supreme Court
Penney
New York
American officers meet Selamlik in Constantinople
United States Chargé d'Affaires Lloyd Griscom and Captain Colby M. Chester with the Ken tucky’s officers attended the Selamlik in Constantinople. The Sultan welcomed Captain Chester and invited him to prolong his stay to Monday for an audience with Mr Wiscom and his staff, dining at the Palace. Also noted is an unrelated comic feature and a railroad advertisement for trains to St Louis from New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Lloyd
Griscom
United States
Colby M. Chester
Kentucky
Selamlik
Chester
Wiscom
Mad nurse murders babe in Williamsburg flat
A 26 year old Jersey City trained nurse allegedly killed the 18 month old child of James and Mrs. Jones at 127 Palmetto Street Williamsburg. The motive cited is the nurse's prior admission she bore a child and longed for her own infant in an asylum. The body was found throat cut ear to ear after 9 pm.
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Alice O’donnell
Jersey City
James Jones
Palmettost
Williamsburg
Jones
Mr. Jones
Joneses
Hamburg Ave
Gaus
State seeks alternate sites for Adirondacks tuberculosis hospital
A joint meeting of the State Forestry Board, Health Board and hospital trustees debated site options for a proposed tuberculosis hospital near Big Clear Lake and Dannemora. Trustees were instructed to report alternate sites with land prices. The $50,000 appropriation was seen as a starting sum for a far larger project.
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Big Clear Lake
Paul Smith
Dannemora
Howard Townsend
J. H. Pryor
Bualo
Willis J. MacDonald
Albany
Ezra Kendall
Saranac Lake
Walter Jennings
State Forestry Board
State Board of Health
Big Cleer Lake
Dannemora Village
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Hospital
Woodruff
E. A. Bend
Babcock
Rochester
Merton E. Lewis
State Board of Forestry
Daniel Lewis
Owen Cassidy
Baxter T. Smelter
Board of Health
Friends of
Death during a New York wedding tragedy
Sadie Steinbeck sixteen employed at 240 Rivington Street died after a window sill collapse while watching a Jewish wedding on a neighboring building. She fell through an air shaft holding a clothesline, breaking her neck. Austrian immigrant had lived in the U S two years. father at 61 Sheriff Street claimed the body at Union Market Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Steinbeck
Rivington St
Union Market Station
No. 61
Sheriffst
Tragic Railroad Collision In Red Bank NJ Wrecks Carriage
In Red Bank New Jersey a Pennsylvania Railroad train struck a closed carriage near the Jersey City bound line injuring Paul Wolcott, his wife, and John Wright. Paul Wolcott lost an arm and a leg, John Wright was hurt, Mrs Wolcott escaped with minor injuries. The horse died. Dr Field treated Paul and he was moved to Monmouth Memorial Hospital. Wolcott and wife had married two months earlier. Conductor H Landes and Engineer Edward Carr operated the train. The corridor claims electro automatic signals protected the line.
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Red Bank
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jersey City
Paul Wolcott
John Wright
Eatontown
Mrs. Wolcott
H. Landes
Edward Carr
Daily excursions by tourist cars on Thursday runs
Daily excursions in Tourist Cars Personally conducted every Thursday. Chicago, Union Pacific and Northwestern Line. Two fast trains daily from Chicago at 6 PM and 10 30 PM. No change of cars. Tickets and division at Chicago and Northwestern Office 41 away. Keep it always In the house the Cold cure Jaynes Expectorant.
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Chicago
Union Pacific and
Northwestern Line
Chicago and Northwestern
Jaynes Expectorant
Advt
Single New York City police commissioner bill debated
Senator Platt discusses a proposed New York City police bill to create a single commissioner appointed by the Mayor and removable by the Governor without charges. He says the Republican leaders will push immediate passage at session start. Odell will handle Charter Bees Commission findings without recommendation.
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Senator Platt
Platt
Washington
Fifth Avenue
Odell
Dunn
Cohen
Tribune
New York City
Raines
Delehanty
Board of Mediation and Arbitration
Mr. Platt
Senate
House
Odell Ba
Charter Bees Commission
Nixon
Ellsworth
Resa
Wilcox
Aubture
Mailey
Reuters
Assembly
Babcocr and
Mank
St. Lawrence
Assemblyman
Stevens
Franklin
Armstrong
Massachusetts
Peoria Decatur and Evansville Securities Delisted
On the stock exchange the second mortgage bonds and trust certificates of the Peoria Decatur and Evansville company were struck from the list as the road, operating 254 miles in Indiana and Winds, foreclosed under the first mortgage and now run by Illinois Central. Four thousand shares traded with a price rise to 2 percent, buyers curious why the delisting was announced at day end rather than open. Foreclosures occurred February 6 1900 and May 10 1900 respectively.
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Stock Exchange
Tigher
Peoria, Decatur and
Evansville
W. H. Granberg
Committee On Stock
Peoria
Decatur and
Illinois Central
Granberg
Decatur
Indiana
Winds
Manley to Seek Internal Revenue Post After Maine Session
Joseph H. Manley of Augusta Maine traveled to Washington to discuss the Internal Revenue Commissionership left vacant by Commissioner Wilson's death. Named as future Speaker of the Maine Legislature, he would resign any federal post during service and may accept the tax post after the legislature’s session in March.
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Joseph H. Manley
Augusta
Republican National Committee
Washington
Internal Revenue
Newfoundland Enlarged Cabinet Reconstructed in St Johns
Premier Bond, with Imperial approval, enlarges the Newfoundland Cabinet to meet Reid contract issues. Cabinet includes Premier and Colonial Secretary Robert Bond, Finance Edward Jackman, Justice William Horwood, Leader George Knowling, and ministers Edward Morris Augustus Harvey James Pitts Hed Woods James D Ryan. Three noncabinet ministers named Elidaw e Thomas Murphy and George Gushue.
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St. John’s, N. F
Bond
Joseph Chamberlain
Newfoundland
Reid
Robert Bond
William Horwood
Edward Jackman
Legislative Council
George Knowling
Edwad Morris
Augustus Harvey
James Pitts
Hed Woods
James D. Ryan
Agriculture
Elidawe
Fisheries
Thomas Murphy
George Gushue
Union League Club Member Robbed in Pearl Street Incident
William Osborne, a Union League Club member and distillers agent on Front Street, was listening to tambourine players at 28 Pearl Street when George Rice alias O Neill, 18, of 19 Cherry Street, snatched his gold watch. Patrolman Hart of Oak Street arrested Rice, held in $1,000 by Irate Flammer of Content County Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Osborne
Union League Club
Distillers
Pearl St
George Rice
O'Neill
Cherryst
Hart
Oak St
Rice
Royal Limited Trains Quick NYC to Washington Ad
From New York Royal Show trains depart foot of Liberty Street at 11 00 A M with no excess fare on the Royal Limited. Other fast solid sets at 3 00 A M 10 00 A M 7 00 P M and 12 15 P M. Earlier minutes in the world.
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Lake Shore Limited
Epsalate
New York
Chicago
New York Central
Pullman
Chieno
Lake Short
St. Louis
Kan City
Louis
Washington
Royal
Liberty St
Royal Limited
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Wk. Chamberlain
PDE Wet
MR. Sankey
New-York Tribune
CABLE
the Tribune
Alfred
W. F. Hely-Hutchinson
Natal
Telegraph
Household Cavalry
Canada
Australia
Empire
United Kingdom
London County Council
Buckingham Palace Road
Victoria St
Blackfriars Bridge
Camberwell
Wandsworth
London United Tramway Company
Hampton Court
City of London College
Questien
Choate
America
Corporation of the Borough of
Kensington
Queen's Club
Midlands
Yorkshire
Scotland
Ulster
Pretoria
Bloemfontein
William Vernon Harcourt
Johannesburg Racecourse
Heidelberg
Cape Town
Greenpoint Camp
San
Diego
Colombia
Omar
West 234 Bt
Babe
Man
California
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